AI is an ever-developing field of technology, and has been growing rapidly over the last decade, but what exactly is it used for, and how does it affect us?
In my video, I wanted to talk about some of the practical applications for AI, as well as the pros and cons for its uses. My reasoning for this is that, aside from it being a topic that appeals to me greatly as a student of Information Technology, it’s also not clear-cut as to whether or not AI is a good thing, and I wanted to discuss both why AI is beneficial, and the issues and problems the use of AI presents.

This video took a great deal of research, as I didn’t want to cover just one aspect of AI’s use in the world; given this was an 8-minute-long video, I thought droning about a single issue wouldn’t draw the listener in, and would have required too much padding to meet the time requirements. As a result, the first thing I did was select a couple of topics that interest me in regards to AI development, and from there, pick out a handful of interesting cases to talk about. My sources were a combination of academic journals and newspaper articles talking about both the positive uses, and dangers, of AI.
Regarding the actual construction of the video, I took the feedback from my last video regarding it not having enough of a “personal” touch, and decided I would employ a combination of the strategies I used for my first and second videos; both talking to the camera and overlaying images that related to what I was talking about. I didn’t do much in the way of staging, though to film this video I did employ a new technique. Using the mobile app “DroidCam OBS”, I connected my phone to the OBS client on my computer, where I was able to record both using the best of both aspects – the higher quality video camera from my phone, and the higher fidelity audio setup on my computer. Once recorded, I exported the audio to Audacity to clean up some weirdness and remove as much of the background noise as I could (I live on a busy street!), then resynced the cleaned audio with the video in Premiere Pro.
This video took much more editing than my previous two, mainly due to the sheer amount of content within it. In all, the initial recording I took was 14 minutes long – mostly due to the fact I stutter, and respoke a number of paragraphs when I was unhappy with my delivery, and I managed to cut this down to just below 7 and a half minutes. Again, as with my previous video, I overlayed a number of images that reflected what I was speaking about, but this time they weren’t the main focus of the video – I was!
Finally, the music I used in the video is again my own, as in the first video. In all, there are three tracks. I used the same track for the introduction and conclusion, so that it would help tie the two together and give a sense of “coming full circle” to the video. The other two songs I interspersed throughout the video, and there were times where I cut the music entirely, in order to create a juxtaposition, particularly when the topic I was speaking on was heavier or more impactful.

The largest challenge I faced with creating this video was definitely speaking directly to the camera. Despite having done it a few times now, I still find it nerve-wracking to do so. I think this is apparent in the video itself; I think my overall tone becomes clearer, and it is obvious that I am getting into more of a flow and a rhythm, as the video goes on. It also took me much longer to research the topic than I had anticipated and planned for, which caused me to fall a bit behind on my deadline. This could likely have been mitigated if I’d narrowed my focus a bit, but again, I found that the topic was too diverse and interesting to simply talk about one aspect of AI!

In all, creating this video was a fantastic experience. I learned a great deal more than I thought I would about the uses of AI, and I hope that I was able to convey that learning well enough that you were able to pick up some new information too!

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You’ve almost definitely seen the ads all across your favourite YouTube channels, encourage you to sign up for a VPN service. But is there actually a need to sign up for one? How much do these services actually protect you, and do you even need protecting?
I wanted to focus on this as a topic as I believe there is a lot of fearmongering and misinformation regarding online surveillance, and as a student of IT I thought I would be able to use my knowledge in the area, and hopefully tie it into the topic of surveillance a bit.

Regarding strategies I used for this video, I wanted to use less of my own face, because the video isn’t exactly a personal one. Additionally, I tried to stage my study a bit for a background, but it just didn’t look professional, so I avoided it entirely. As such, I used a range of websites providing free stock footage, and edited it in ways to tie it together a bit more cleanly and make it look less like “cobbled together stock footage”. I hope I did an okay job of it! Everything was created in Adobe Premiere Pro, which I already had experience editing in. This footage was all used with free licensing – this means it was all able to be used without accreditation, and was able to be edited without permissions. I have included a list of websites from which I used footage.
For the sound, I once again used Audacity to record my voice – I use this on a regular basis to record music. I improved my vocal audio this time by messing around with my white noise remover; it should have done a better job of removing the background noise and making my voice sound clearer. For the music, this time I decided not to create my own, due to time constraints – I went to Epidemic Sound for the music, who for a monthly subscription offer a massive catalogue of “royalty-free” music, which in my opinion sounds a lot better than more interesting than any of the truly royalty-free music I could find. Lastly, I tried to juxtapose the music with what I was saying, in particular using the more ominous music at the start versus lighter, more whimsical music for the latter half.

The biggest challenge I faced initially related to the way I planned to create my video, which was to speak to the camera and overlay images. I already mentioned that I tried to stage my room to look a bit more professional, but I wasn’t happy with the result, so opted for using relevant “stock” video.  Sourcing relevant video material to go alongside the script I was speaking proved to be the much more difficult choice of the two. This ended up being much more time consuming than I expected it to be, as I found I needed to take a lot more sources than I thought I would; in my original edit it held on certain clips for too long, and seemed incredibly awkward. The video ended up looking much better jumping between several different cuts, but this meant I had to take about twice as much footage as I initially planned.

Overall, I had a great time with this video project, and I hope you were able to learn something along the way!

References

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Hesse, B. (2020, July 21). Avoid These ‘No-Log’ VPN Services That Leaked Millions of Users’ Data. Retrieved from Lifehacker: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/07/avoid-these-no-log-vpn-services-that-leaked-millions-of-users-data/

IVPN. (2012, June 8). When law enforcement knocks on a VPN’s door, what happens? Retrieved from IVPN: https://www.ivpn.net/blog/when-law-enforcement-knocks-on-a-vpns-door-what-happens/

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Martin, A. (2011, September 23). LulzSec Hacker Exposed by the Service He Thought Would Hide Him. Retrieved from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/lulzsec-hacker-exposed-service-he-thought-would-hide-him/337545/

U.S. Attorney’s Office. (2013, April 18). Member of LulzSec Hacking Group Sentenced to More Than One Year in Federal Prison for 2011 Intrusion into Sony Pictures Computer Systems. Retrieved from The Federal Bureau of Investigation: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2013/member-of-lulzsec-hacking-group-sentenced-to-more-than-one-year-in-federal-prison-for-2011-intrusion-into-sony-pictures-computer-systems

Whitcomb, D. (2013, April 19). Hacker gets a year in prison for Sony attack. Retrieved from Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/hacker-gets-a-year-in-prison-for-sony-attack-20130419-2i4hl.html

Special Thanks

Music by Epidemic Sound

Thanks to the following for their footage:
Mixkit
Pexels
Pixabay
Videvo

Hey, it’s been a while since I posted here, hasn’t it?

Today’s update is a little different: an about me video! I wanted to show off some of my passions, and give a snippet of who the authentic “Matt” is. Music in particular is meant to be a main highlight; as you can see from my previous posts on YouTube, it’s pretty much exclusively guitar covers. This is also why I decided to use my own music, rather than something royalty-free. I mention music as being one of my passions, and what better way to showcase that than using my own song? I think this helps bring across a sense of authenticity to the video, apart from just acting as myself. I also decided to take the opportunity to show off a bit of my game design work, as it’s my other big passion, and my hopeful future career. I think this video does a great job of portraying who I am; a music lover, gamer, and just a little awkward.
As should be clear, the main audience I targeted this towards is my fellow students at Deakin University; I clearly called out my studies in the beginning of the video, and made sure to note that I’m looking forward to the trimester with everyone!

I didn’t do much “planning” for this post; I had a rough idea of what I wanted to include from the beginning – talk about my interests. I also haven’t really watched any vlog style YouTube content before, as it’s not really in my interests, so I just did what felt comfortable and fun to me. I knew I wanted to get some footage from St Kilda Beach – it’s only about a 20-minute walk from my place, and given the pandemic I need more excuses to leave the house. Fortunately, the weather was favourable, and I got some great footage. I didn’t use a script; the real aim of this video was authenticity, and when I read a script it sounds unnatural.

My biggest challenge came from recording the audio and video talking to the camera. I have a great setup for, and a lot of experience with, audio recording with my PC – I use it to record my music. However, I don’t have a good webcam, and though the camera on my phone is great, the microphone is not as good, and given I live in an apartment in St Kilda, there’s a lot of background noise. To get around this, I recorded audio in Audacity simultaneously to my recording, then spliced it together. This meant I had much greater control over the audio quality, and was able to reduce most of the background noise. I also don’t have a stand for my phone, but I managed to ad hoc one out of books on my shelf.
Recording the music was simple; as I said I already have a decent setup for this, so I did it directly through the computer on Audacity, and touched up the sound a bit. The instruments themselves took a total of about 3 takes (with three tracks; two guitars and a bass). I edited my video using Adobe Premiere Pro; I have a decent amount of experience in video editing from my Information Technology major, so I didn’t have any issues with this; the whole process took about 2 hours.

Overall, this was a really fun experience, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone else’s videos! Let me know down below, or on Twitter, how you found your first video.

Until next time,
Matt!

Also, How Social Media has Helped With the Spread of Online Activist Movements

Wow, a podcast! Who would’ve seen this one coming. It’s not the first time I’ve done one of these, but it is the first time I’ve done it solo, which was a unique experience to say the least.

Today, the topic is online activism, and the pros and cons of it, as well as a bit of discussion on how social media has helped with its spread. Originally, this wasn’t my intention – I had planned to focus more on the negative aspects of the online activist movement, however, the more I researched, the more I discovered positive outcomes of online activism – the examples I touch on in the podcast are the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”, and the mobilisation of the Arab Spring protests, however these are just a fraction of what I found. However, there is no denying the negative aspects of online activism, whether it is the laziness of the “slacktivist” movement, or the targeted harassment experienced by some as a result of online activism gone wrong, such as in the case of the Boston Bombing.

As well as this, my research helped broaden my understanding of what could be considered “online activism”. Originally my understanding of online activism came from the examples of “slacktivism” that I had seen – hashtag movements, temporary Facebook Profile Picture frames, or petitions on websites such as Change.org. However, my research showed me that online activism doesn’t necessarily have to be online; only to use the Internet as a means to facilitate it. In particular, the journal article “Potentials, Networks, Motivation, and Barriers: Steps Towards Participation in Social Movements” (Klandermans and Oegema, 1987) helped broaden my understanding of how social media could influence activism both online and offline, particularly as a recruitment network, and by removing barriers for activists to participate, two key aspects of mobilisation cited by them. This is what ultimately caused the shift in tone from my original idea for this podcast; these key aspects that were so easily influenced by social media really helped to show me the potential for social media to be used as a force for good in the world of activism, rather than vain slacktivist movements that are a facade of caring about a movement.

The music used within the podcast are two tracks of my own creation. Both are tunes that I have had jotted down for a little while, so it was nice to finally have an excuse to put them to real instruments. I hadn’t considered a podcast as a way to promote creativity in this manner, so the experience was fantastic in that regard!

Possibly the biggest challenge I faced, as I have discussed somewhat already, was the fact that the research I undertook challenged my preconceived notions on online activism. It’s tough going into a research project with an idea already in your head, only to have it thrown in your face as the facts are shown to you, however I would not change this experience in the slightest. Overall, this podcast was a fantastic learning experience, and I look forward to hearing your opinions on what I discussed!

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A Reflection on my Many Online Identities

Social media and I have an interesting relationship. Across a (mostly abandoned) Facebook page, an Instagram account, my long since deleted Tumblr, and not one but two Twitter profiles, it’s safe to say I’ve my fair share of experience in using social media. In spite of that, I don’t believe I’ve developed a single online persona, but instead a collection of them that, when combined, create something greater than the sum of their parts.

Firstly, let’s start with Facebook. Way back almost 10 years ago, 13 year old Matt signed up for, and got his first taste of, social media. Back then, I mostly used social media as a way to post about my daily goings on (which usually meant school back then), and I mean that in the most literal sense – I used to post to Facebook on a virtually daily basis! However, as other social media sites came up, Facebook became less and less important to me in this regard – I still use it to communicate with friends, though you can see that my last personal post was from 2017, and I haven’t updated my profile picture in over 3 years.

For the most part, this inactivity can be blamed (or perhaps thanked?) on Instagram – since 2012, almost all of my personal social media usage has been exclusively here. However, most of what I share here is still mostly “surface level” or impersonal; from pictures of my cats, musicians, tattoos, or holiday snaps, it still does not do much to show the “real” Matt. For that, we have to go to one level deeper – to the wonderful world of Twitter.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnk_0YqjMok/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet

Now, as with the rest of the students enrolled in ALM101 this semester, I was required to make a Twitter account as a way to interact with the unit, as well as the other students within it. This account, @Matt_Cindric (follow me there if you don’t already!), has been my primary social media account over the last few months, where I have been learning about my other students and documenting my own process of going through university. However, as I mentioned above, I already had a Twitter account, under my (now formerly, I suppose) anonymous online alias @MirandaGemini. Now before I talk about that, let me explain why I decided to go with a new account for my studies, rather than using that one.
As discussed by Smith and Watson (2014, pp. 74 – 75) in their toolbox on online self-presentation, it is important to consider the audience of you are attempting to appeal to. If you scroll through this pseudonymous account, you’ll quickly see why I decided not to use it for school. Since I created the account in 2016, it has been my place to rant about video games (particularly esports as of late), sports, anime, and my various mental health issues.

So proud of the @LAValiant boys for the win today. Still a long way to go but progress! Less shit!

— Vismund (@MirandaGemini) April 20, 2019

Ironically in a sense, this is probably the account that is truest to my real life identity. In particular, my struggle with mental health over recent years is not something I have discussed often with those I know personally, however as early as 2016 (near the conception of my Twitter account) I was making posts hinting at (or, in some cases, outright talking about) my poor mental health.

Sorry I've not streamed for what, 5 days now? Been feeling a bit meh in general. It's been one of those weeks

— Vismund (@MirandaGemini) July 12, 2016

The pseudonymous nature of this account allowed me to express myself freely, without fear of being judged by those who knew me personally. With that said,
The audience I have cultivated there (and the list of people that I follow) reflects that – a sudden pivot to focus on my university work would drive away the audience who are currently interested in what I say there – and I doubt most of my classmates want my Overwatch League play-by-plays!
That’s not to say that there isn’t some crossover. With Twitter in particular I am becoming more open with my discussion of my mental health, and I hope that I will continue to do so as I grow.

It's amazing how something like mental health can make something as seemingly simple as using social media seem like such a monumental task… I guess it's a bit like real life in that aspect.
Anyway I haven't tweeted much recently but I'm going to try to be more active now!

— Matthew Cindric (@Matt_Cindric) April 11, 2019

The amazing thing about social media is how you can be viewed differently, not just platform-to-platform, but simply by posting under a different account. In a sense, all of the personas I’ve discussed – the high schooler making mundane daily updates, the Instagram adventurer, the Twitter gaming enthusiast, and now university student – are a portrayal of just some of the facets of me, and combining them together you begin to develop a truer sense of the person who I am.

Does anyone else ever go through the photos on their phone and wonder when they appeared there?
Here's an interesting one from me. Ironically, I probably took it so that I would remember to write it down properly later. pic.twitter.com/D8Hht10xHn

— Matthew Cindric (@Matt_Cindric) April 18, 2019

References

Smith, S and Watson, J 2014, ‘Virtually Me: A Toolbox About Online Self Presentation’, in Poletti, A and Rak J, Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 74-75.